Optimal Control Theory and Its Applications: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Congress University of Wester (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Applications of the Fredholm Alternative to Controllability of Functional Differential Equations.- Convergence of Projection Series for Functional Differential Equations with Applications to Control Theory.- The Candide Model.- Optimal Control Theory and Renewable Resource Management.- Necessary Conditions for Nonsmooth Variational Problems.- Linear Hereditary Differential Systems and their Control.- On Finding Solutions which Dominate Equilibrium Solutions to some N-Person Differential Games.- An Approximate Convolution Equation of a Given Response.- On Reachable Sets.- Attainable Sets and Controllability; A Geometric Approach.- The Quadratic Criterion Problem for Systems Governed by Retarded Functional Differential Equations and a Modal Analysis Approximation Procedure.- Cheap Control, Singular Arcs, and Singular Perturbations.- Optimal Control Problems with a Convex and Compact Control Region.- Optimal Control Problems in Advertising.- An Application of the Maximum Principle to a Heterogeneous Labor Model with Retarded Controls.- Remarks on some Basic Concepts of Optimal Control.- Lecturers and Participants.